(Employing a polite version of the caption.) (The captain of a steamship from Bahia has died of yellow fever. The captain’s wife is quarantined at a local hospital. These facts greatly impressed the public spirit, which was startled by the threat of the invasion of yellow evil.)
Yellow fever: “Make yourself comfortable! This is the paradise of professional freedom!…”
Joe Public (small lecture to officials culminating in:) “Come on, gentlemen! A little energy, against the greatest enemy of our land!”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1912)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 